| dc.description.abstract | This research was aimed to describe how photograph can help students
find ideas, select vocabulary, and organize recount text writing. Curriculum in
Indonesia provided English as compulsory subject which was taught in junior
high school level. The ministry of education and Culture considered that the
student should develop the use of language to achieve the communication purpose
as well as in written and spoken. Writing is also considered to have many
obstacles to learn for the students. One of the appropriate media which can
improve students’ quality of writing is photograph
Based on the preliminary study by interviewing the English teacher and the
document, it had been known that the eighth grade students of SMPN 1
Jenggawah especially in VIII-H class had some problem in writing and it made
their writing achievement low. Therefore, the objective of the research was to
know how photograph can help students to find ideas, select vocabulary, and
organize recount text writing. Photograph was selected as media because the
students were going to be stimulated to create the sentences after they analyzed
the photo. The research result was expected to be useful for the English teacher
and future researcher.
The research method used in this research was Classroom Action Research
(CAR). The research consists of only one cycle which covered two meetings to
implement the action. The research used two kinds of data collection methods:
observation with field notes as a tool to collect the data by observing the
implementation of the action and documentation by collecting the results of
students’ works.
The results of field notes and students’ worksheets analyses showed that
photograph could help students find ideas. After the student received the
photographs, they observed each picture on photograph then students guessed about what kind of ideas could have described picture. Photographs inspired the
students to think about the events in the picture. Photographs also helped the
students to select vocabulary. The reason was photographs provided some
information to stimulate the students in mentioning the vocabularies such as noun,
pronoun, adverb and verb on their sentences after observing the details of the
picture. Moreover, photographs facilitated the students to organize recount text by
the guides from the teacher. The result was the students wrote recount text in
chronological order and followed the generic structure of the text.
Thus, photographs can be useful to help the eighth grade students write
recount text at SMPN 1 Jenggawah. | en_US |
